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George Washington
George WashingtonFriday Feb 22, 1732 to Tuesday Dec 14, 1779

George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799) was an American political leader, military...

Winston Churchill
Winston ChurchillMonday Nov 30, 1874 to Sunday Jan 24, 1965

Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (30 November 1874 – 24 January 1965) was a British statesman, ...

Stalin's Image
Joseph StalinWednesday Dec 18, 1878 to Thursday Mar 5, 1953

Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin born in 18 December 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Georgian revolutionary a...

Franklin Roosevelt Image
Franklin D. RooseveltSunday Jan 29, 1882 to Wednesday Apr 11, 1945

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR...

Harry S. Truman
Harry S. TrumanThursday May 8, 1884 to Tuesday Dec 26, 1972

Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972) was the 33rd president of the United States from 1...

Adolf Hitler
Adolf HitlerSaturday Apr 20, 1889 to Monday Apr 30, 1945

Adolf Hitler (20 April 1889 – 30 April 1945) was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party (N...

Ho Chi Minh
Ho Chi MinhMonday May 19, 1890 to Tuesday Sep 2, 1969

Hồ Chí Minh was a Vietnamese revolutionary and politician. He served as Prime Minister of North Viet...

Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. EisenhowerTuesday Oct 14, 1890 to Friday Mar 28, 1969

Dwight David Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American politician and soldier w...

Charles de Gaulle
Charles de GaulleSaturday Nov 22, 1890 to Monday Nov 9, 1970

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French army officer ...

Francisco Franco
Francisco FrancoSunday Dec 4, 1892 to Thursday Nov 20, 1975

Francisco Franco Bahamonde (4 December 1892 – 20 November 1975) was a Spanish general and politician...

First Sino-Japanese War Image
First Sino-Japanese WarWednesday Jul 25, 1894 to Wednesday Apr 17, 1895

The First Sino-Japanese War, also known as the Chino-Japanese War, was fought between China and Japa...

Joseph Goebbels
Joseph GoebbelsWednesday Oct 27, 1897 to Tuesday May 1, 1945

Paul Joseph Goebbels (29 October 1897 – 1 May 1945) was a German Nazi politician and Reich Minister ...

The Second Boer War
Second Boer WarWednesday Oct 11, 1899 to Saturday May 31, 1902

The Second Boer War (11 October 1899 – 31 May 1902) was fought between the British Empire and two Bo...

Martin Bormann
Martin BormannSunday Jun 17, 1900 to Wednesday May 2, 1945

Martin Ludwig Bormann was a German Nazi Party official and head of the Nazi Party Chancellery. He ga...

Itzak Stern
Itzak SternFriday Jan 25, 1901 to 1969

Itzak Stern (25 January 1901 – 1969) was a Polish-Israeli Jewish Holocaust survivor who worked for S...

Hirohito
HirohitoMonday Apr 29, 1901 to Saturday Jan 7, 1989

Hirohito was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, reigning f...

Ruhollah Khomeini
Ruhollah KhomeiniWednesday Sep 24, 1902 to Saturday Jun 3, 1989

Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini (24 September 1902 – 3 June 1989), also known in the Western world a...

Richard Nixon
Richard NixonThursday Jan 9, 1913 to Friday Apr 22, 1994

Richard Milhous Nixon was an American politician who served as the 37th president of the United Sta...

Vasily Zaitsev Image
Vasily ZaitsevTuesday Mar 23, 1915 to Sunday Dec 15, 1991

Vasily Grigoryevich Zaytsev (23 March 1915 – 15 December 1991) was a Soviet sniper and a Hero of the...

J.F.Kennedy Image
John F. KennedyTuesday May 29, 1917 to Friday Nov 22, 1963

Often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president o...

Hungarian–Romanian War (Romanian Cavalry in Budapest during the Hungarian-Romanian War of 1919) Image
Hungarian–Romanian WarWednesday Nov 13, 1918 to Sunday Aug 3, 1919

The Hungarian–Romanian War was fought between the First Hungarian Republic (as the Hungarian Soviet ...

Irish War of Independence
Irish War of IndependenceTuesday Jan 21, 1919 to Monday Jul 11, 1921

The Irish War of Independence or Anglo-Irish War was a guerrilla war fought in Ireland from 1919 to ...

Doss Desmond US Army Image
Desmond Doss: Hacksaw RidgeFriday Feb 7, 1919 to Thursday Mar 23, 2006

Desmond Thomas Doss (February 7, 1919 – March 23, 2006) was a United States Army corporal who served...

Fidel Castro Image
Fidel CastroFriday Aug 13, 1926 to Friday Nov 25, 2016

Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Repub...

Communist troops in the Battle of Siping - Chinese Civil War Image
Chinese Civil WarMonday Aug 1, 1927 to Monday Aug 7, 1950

The Chinese Civil War was a civil war in China fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of...

Che Guevara Image
Che GuevaraThursday Jun 14, 1928 to Monday Oct 9, 1967

Was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military t...

Battle of Madrid (Spanish Civil War)
Spanish Civil WarFriday Jul 17, 1936 to Saturday Apr 1, 1939

The Spanish Civil War was a civil war in Spain fought from 1936 to 1939. Republicans loyal to the le...

Second Sino-Japanese War (Japanese Special Naval Landing Forces in Battle of Shanghai 1937) Image
Second Sino-Japanese WarWednesday Jul 7, 1937 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945

The Second Sino-Japanese War was a military conflict fought primarily between the Republic of China ...

World War II
World War IIFriday Sep 1, 1939 to Sunday Sep 2, 1945

World War II (often abbreviated WWII or WW2), also known as Second World War, was a global war that ...

Slobodan Milošević Image
Slobodan MiloševićWednesday Aug 20, 1941 to Saturday Mar 11, 2006

Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who served as the President of Serbia (ori...

George W. Bush
George W. BushSaturday Jul 6, 1946 to Present

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 4...

First Indochina War COLLAGE - image
First Indochina WarThursday Dec 19, 1946 to Tuesday Jul 20, 1954

The First Indochina War (generally known as the Indochina War in France, and as the Anti-French Resi...

Map of conflict zones in Myanmar (Burma) - image
Conflict in MyanmarFriday Apr 2, 1948 to Present

The Conflict in Myanmar is a series of primarily ethnic conflicts within Myanmar that began shortly ...

Korean War Image
Korean WarSunday Jun 25, 1950 to Monday Jul 27, 1953

The Korean War (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953) was a war between North Korea (with the support of Chin...

Putin Image
Vladimir PutinMonday Oct 6, 1952 to Present

Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (born 7 October 1952) is a Russian politician and former intelligence o...

Algerian War Image
Algerian WarMonday Nov 1, 1954 to Monday Mar 19, 1962

The Algerian War, also known as the Algerian War of Independence or the Algerian Revolution was foug...

Anyanya Flag
First Sudanese Civil WarThursday Aug 18, 1955 to Monday Mar 27, 1972

The First Sudanese Civil War (also known as the Anyanya Rebellion or Anyanya I, after the name of th...

Collage of Images From The Vietnam War
Vietnam WarTuesday Nov 1, 1955 to Wednesday Apr 30, 1975

The Vietnam War , also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Again...

Osama bin Laden Image
Bin LadenSunday Mar 10, 1957 to Monday May 2, 2011

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011), also rendered Usama bin Ladin,...

Bay of Pigs Invasion Image
Bay of Pigs InvasionMonday Apr 17, 1961 to Thursday Apr 20, 1961

The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba undertaken by the Central Intelligen...

British army in Brunei
Brunei revoltSaturday Dec 8, 1962 to Monday Dec 17, 1962

The Brunei revolt was a December 1962 insurrection in the British protectorate of Brunei by opponen...

A Colombian marine on a field training exercise
Colombian conflictWednesday May 27, 1964 to Present

The Colombian conflict began in the mid-1960s and is a low-intensity asymmetric war between the gove...

Chris Kyle Image
American Sniper: Christopher Scott KyleMonday Apr 8, 1974 to Saturday Feb 2, 2013

Christopher Scott Kyle was a United States Navy SEAL sniper. He served four tours in the Iraq War an...

Iran-Iraq War Image
Iran–Iraq WarMonday Sep 22, 1980 to Saturday Aug 20, 1988

The Iran–Iraq War began on 22 September 1980, when Iraq invaded Iran, and ended on 20 August 1988, w...

Orderly repatriation of Argentine army POWs 1982
Falklands WarFriday Apr 2, 1982 to Monday Jun 14, 1982

The Falklands War was a 10-week undeclared war between Argentina and the United Kingdom in 1982 over...

Flames engulf a building following the outbreak of hostilities between the Panamanian Defense Force and U.S. forces during Operation Just Cause
Invasion of PanamaWednesday Dec 20, 1989 to Wednesday Jan 31, 1990

The United States Invasion of Panama, codenamed Operation Just Cause occurred between mid-December 1...

Demolished vehicles line Highway 80, also known as the "Highway of Death", the route fleeing Iraqi forces took as they retreated fom Kuwait during Operation Desert Storm Image
Gulf WarThursday Aug 2, 1990 to Thursday Feb 28, 1991

The Gulf War (2 August 1990 – 28 February 1991), codenamed Operation Desert Shield (2 August 1990 – ...

Destroyed Yugoslav Army T-55 tank. This tank was hit by a Croatian AT missile, abandoned by its crew and later destroyed by another JNA tank
Croatian War of IndependenceSunday Mar 31, 1991 to Sunday Nov 12, 1995

The Croatian War of Independence was fought from 1991 to 1995 between Croat forces loyal to the gove...

Slovenian Territorial defense military drills held in March 1991 Image
Ten-Day War (Slovenian Independence War)Thursday Jun 27, 1991 to Sunday Jul 7, 1991

The Ten-Day War, or the Slovenian Independence War, was a brief conflict that followed the Slovenian...

Bosnian War (The government building in the centre of Sarajevo burns after being hit by tank fire during the siege in 1992) Image
Bosnian WarMonday Apr 6, 1992 to Thursday Dec 14, 1995

The Bosnian War was an international armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina betwee...

First Chechen War (A Chechen fighter stands near the government palace building during a short lull in fighting in Grozny, Chechnya) Image
First Chechen WarSunday Dec 11, 1994 to Saturday Aug 31, 1996

The First Chechen War, also known as the First Chechen Сampaign, First Russian-Chechen war, or offic...

Kosovo War Image
Kosovo WarSunday Feb 1, 1998 to Friday Jun 11, 1999

The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started in late February 1998 and lasted until 1...

(Second Chechen War) A Russian Mi-8 helicopter shot down by Chechen fighters near the Chechen capital, Grozny
Second Chechen WarThursday Aug 26, 1999 to Sunday Apr 30, 2000

Second Chechen War, also known as the Second Chechen Сampaign or officially Counter-terrorist operat...

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